Please read this before you proceed with cost calculation.

We highly recommend that you develop your application as a prototype (phase one) development, before proceeding to a next phase. We also recommend that you start by developing only the core features of your application, you can always at a following phase add features. It is important to first test your idea as a prototype - in many cases you will also only discover things you would like to change once you use the developed prototype. Changes to a prototype is less expensive than changes to a commercial phase application.

Typical development phases:

Phase 1 (Prototype Phase)

In this phase we develop the application based on its core features. Usually this development is only for one platform, either Android or IOS. In this phase the goal is to end with a prototype of the application. The client can then test the idea with a small group of users and receive feedback. This phase does not involve a large amount of testing on our side (on multiple handsets, multiple environments etc) - in other words this will not be a stable version of the application. This phase also does not involve a large amount of User Interface Design, in other words making the application look great and be as intuitive as possible. The first reason for this is to keep the development cost as lean as possible in order to first gauge the market and test the viability of the client's core idea. In addition to this, it is likely that the client will discover in this market testing phase that there are a number of things that they would do differently. If the full commercial development was done from the onset it would be a more costly exercise to now make the changes to both platforms and re-perform all the testing. Lastly it may be that the client discovers that the idea is not viable - in which case the minimal investment is lost since only phase 1 development was done.

Phase 2 (Frozen Prototype Phase)

The client would now have received feedback from the testing group in phase 1 and have made decisions about the changes that the application requires. We will now make the changes to the initial platform of phase 1 (Android or IOS). At the end of this phase the application will be deemed as ready for commercial development and "frozen" in terms of changes and features.

Phase 3 (Commercial Phase)

We will now develop the application in the other platform of choice (if phase 1 was done in Android we will now add the IOS development and vice versa.) Rigorous testing will be performed in this phase. Professional User Interface Design will be added in this phase. The end goal of this phase if the have a market ready application that can be launched on the Android Play Store and the IOS App Store.

Please note that the cost calculation is only an estimate, final costing will be done once we have a full specification in place.